Ocotillo-gum solution.



JEFFERSOH CRAWFORD AND JOFJEP'H 'llUG'HES OF Slilll' T035353 TO CACTUS RUBBER or lin zoniii To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that We, Jnrruuson l)" Cnlxu noun, a citizen of the United States, residing t and Whose post-ollice address is 317 Paris street, city and county of San Francisco, State of Culiforniu, and .losnrn' llucnce, u suh ieet of the Kingdom of Great Britain,

' residing at and Whose post-ollice address 950 Pierce street. at the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented a new and useful Ocotillo-Gnni Soho ti'on oi? which the following is u specifi 'tion.

This invention consists of ingredients includingocotillo gum extracted from the oeo'l illo plant (Fang/112307 50 is'pi mrlens) by means of Whichthis gum is held in solution and. maintains its liquid .sl'uto, until the vehiele of suspension is se 'iurai ed by evaporaltion is directed to our 60- )endiu u V 1 lit/ion of even date relating to the process of extracting oeotilio gum, certain commercred; particularly its insolnbility and other solvents, that it'is desired to resist l the application of this invention in the arts.

This prisent composition of mutter Will he described in its adzu'iluhilitv to use as n. Wood lil er, for closing" the pores and interstices in Wood prior to the application of rznrnish. paint and other commercial finishes; without desiring to hennderstood as limiting this invention to that specific use, as such a com position of matter has various uses in many different arts unnecessary to purticularize herein Without pretending; to say that ocotillo gum has no chemicul olvent we wish to shite that we are uuuu'ure of any other means of redruziug it to a, solution 21's vhcuply and vifer-lively that herein denrribcdi (lcoi'illo gum in ii- Hllllll staturesembles other regcinhlo gunr and :iuhutum-es of :1 resinous nature; ii, may he readily dissolved or melied hy the upplicniion of heat and water. or on ucidulous solution; when so reduced lo a, liquid state it combines perfectly Specification of Letters Patent.

11 water FRANCISCO CALIFORE'Id,

OCOTILLO-GUM SOLUTION.

Application filed January 2, 1515. Serial E10. 300.

with water and may he thinned to any exi'ent; the solution so formed will absorb coloring matter and other ingredients having the proper :iliiuil VA wood filler should he us nearly colorless us po sihlr; Flllllllll hare free flowing liquid qualities to'l'neilitute its spreading and uhsorption into the pores of the Wood or the sin-fore l'o uhich il to be applied. It should have the property of drying hard without ruining the grain of the Wood. R Shouldpresent when dry :1 hard even surface to which the varnish or olher finish will udln re; and the filler should he proof against discoloration or change of form under the influence of nioieture or liquids that might iGH.

accidentally come in contact with the filler. v

This composition of mutter as a filler-meets :ill oi il' 1 iwpiirenienls as, oescribed above, and being; as nearly colorless he may he will not obscure the Mural grain of the Wood that it desi'rrd to fill. If the Wood to be finished is nnturully o artificially colored it is (lQSllillJll, ihrit the filler SllOlllCl be similm ly tinted or colored. @cotillo gum in the HOlill stole being irreducible hv commercially pruclicuhha solvents rendered a ailuhle hy coinhinulion with other elements, to form at liquid (JUIUPUSll/lOl! of matter including 0coti'llo gum. Waller, r asolution to produce lhe desired fluidit fand coloring mutter desired.

Huvinv thus d icrihcd thiefinvention one of ils ueein the ingredients, and the manner of its. conu'iosilion, nghut We claim and desire to ecurc by iletlersl utent is:

1. A cou'ipcsition oi niutior including comi'ncrciul ocotillo gum F0161 ue'ria splcndc'ns) and on aqueous; solution.

2. 'i composition oi. mutter including 000 i illo gum and nu acid solution.

in lesl'imouy r.'li ir=,- of We have hereunto set our hands this Huh day 0i. December 1914.

rll lhl l j ili v fll' l CRAVVFOED. JUSEPH HUGHES.

Z /"itnessi-is BALDWIN VALE? A. J. 

